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My name is Suzy Plantamura. I live in sunny Orange County, California by the beach. I have three kids, one grand baby, and two dogs. I draw watercolor cards and design stamps for Simon Says Stamp. I have a blog series called "one stamp, five ways" that I post to two times a week. I want to motivate and inspire others to use their stamp sets more and learn new techniques. I love designing products and making cards to share with others!

March 17, 2018

Today my "one stamp, five ways" post uses the Simon Says Stamp April card kit. But unfortunately it was sold out before I finished this post. The beautiful stamp set included in the kit IS STILL IN STOCK though - it is called Beautiful Day. There is also a butterfly stencil that is still available for individual purchase. And the two inks in the kit are also available - Squeezed Lemonade and Mermaid Lagoon. So really all you are missing is the papers if you didn't get the full kit. When I do kit posts, I use the stamp set on all of my cards since it's a "one stamp, five ways" post, so this post should still be helpful...
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March 09, 2018

Today is day two of the Simon Says Stamp blog hop for their new Best Days release. I have two sets of watercolor cards as part of this release! The first one is called "It's a Dogs Life". I drew this set because I absolutely LOVE dogs and I have two myself (neither of which got represented here so don't tell them). I tried to include the most popular breeds so I hope I've included yours! Here is an image: Here are 2 of the 12 cards I had a chance to color and make into cards. I'll be coloring the rest and doing a blog post with them in the coming week. I colored both of these with Prismacolored...
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Today is the second day of the inspirational Pretty Pink Posh new release blog hop and I'm so excited to share some cards with you using the Bunny Friends set and lots of of the other new dies. I made six cards and shared four of them on my last blog post. I have two more to share with you today all using the same stamp and die set. Here are the first four cards I showed on the other post and you can view that post to see directions for each of them HERE: And here are the two cards I haven't shared yet with directions for each: This card uses a few of the new dies from the...
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March 03, 2018

Today I have a "one stamp, five ways" post to share using the new ADORBS BUNNY FRIENDS stamp and die set by Pretty Pink Posh. Everything they create is just so darn cute! I love Easter products as flowers and bunnies and all things spring are my favorites! This stamp is just perfect for Easter and Spring cards. Here is an image: I made six cards with the set, but I am only sharing four of them today. I have two that are going to be on the Pretty Pink Posh blog, so I'm just showing you sneaks of the last two. Yes, I broke all my rules again!! The good news is that PPP released their products on March...
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February 18, 2018

Today I have two cards to share with you using the Pretty Pink Posh Hummingbird Thanks and Pretty Petunias stamp and die sets. I started by stamping all of the images from these two sets on white cardstock with MFT Natural Ink so I could color them with no lines. Then I colored them all in with Copic Markers. Then I went back and shaded them all with Prismacolored Pencils. I ended up with some very BRIGHT colored images as you will see. I had enough to make two cards, so both cards match in their bright colored shades! So here we go! (put on the sunglasses!!!). Card 1: I think I even over lightened this photo so it wouldn't...
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February 13, 2018

Today is the release of the Simon Says Stamp March Card Kit. It is a VERY full kit and full of spring promise! This one actually includes TWO stamp sets, so I actually should have titled this post "one kit, five ways" as it technically uses both of the stamps in the kit. But we all know I often break my rules, so hopefully we can all just go with it! Here is an image of the kit: I made five cards to share with you today primarily focusing on the two stamp sets, but using all of the kit contents as well (including those little puff balls which are so cute!). Card 1: This is the only one of...
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February 12, 2018

Hey girls (and boys?!?!?!) - I'm finally back with a "one stamp, five ways" post! But I have (again) broken (my) rules and made it a "one stamp, SIX ways" post! Any objections? hahaha Today's post is using the Simon Says Stamp stamp set called Encouraging Animals with a matching Encouraging Animals die set. It is full of cute little animals and cute little salutations to go with each. This set was part of their Encouraging Words release a few months ago. Here is an image: There were so many options with this stamp set with six different animals/insects/birds and lots of salutations so you can use it for many different occasions. I didn't even use it for school even...
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January 27, 2018

Hello again friends! I'm loving all these LOVE filled releases by SSS. I think love and valentine cards are the most fun to make so I get very excited over anything with hearts! There are lots of stamp sets, dies, and my newest set of watercolor cards in this release. You can see the entire release HERE. Here is an image of my watercolor cards called Love and Friendship: As usual, I have all of the watercolor cards painted to show you so you can get an idea of how they will look all dressed up and ready to give-a-way! This time though, I only had the cards for 24 hours, so I wanted to tell you that I painted...
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January 18, 2018

Yesterday I was the guest blogger on the Ellen Hutson blog (and I forgot to add this post yesterday so I'm so sorry it is late if you have been looking for it! One comment on this blog will win a $50 GC to the Ellen Hudson store - wooohoooooooo!!! I have three cards on the EH blog with different techniques on each and step out shots that are worth checking out, so hop on over to this post to see the details. Here are some sneaks of my cards: I used two of their newly released stamp sets - S'Whale and Arctic Pals as well as a new stencil called Strands. I used a recently released stamp set called...
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January 13, 2018

Hello card making friends! Today is the second day of the Simon Says Stamp FRIENDS new product release blog hop. This release went live a little before the holidays, but the blog hop waited until things were a bit calmer! I have two products in this release including a stamp set called Love and Friendship and a watercolor card set called Winter Warmth. The entire release can be found HERE. Here is my stamp set: The little girls are suppose to be friends and they can either hold hands or they can hold one of the items in the stamp set. Some of the small sentiments fit inside the balloon. I added the sentiment "you are my person" because that...
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